The paradox that ruins the realm event, or why I’m not grinding BGs
TyEdge
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I’ll try to keep this somewhat brief and constructive.
The realm event for BGs is fundamentally flawed. It exists with an eye toward incentivizing additional participation especially in gladiator circuit.
Unfortunately, it requires an investment from an individual summoner but the return is entirely contingent on the community.
For those of us with kids and/or busy jobs, binge playing isn’t an option. Steady progress is key to long term goals, whether it’s accumulating units or BG points.
This system requires 360 points every two days. Thats 310 points per two days after you deduct the 50 bonus. In the victory track, that’s basically two wins and a loss every day. In GC, it’s a little more than one win and loss per day.
Thanks to changes in the reward structure, however, there’s no guaranteed return for your time or your elder marks. There’s already chatter that we’re behind schedule. Many expect we will fall even farther behind. I’m cautiously optimistic that the extra points for gladiator circuit will help us maintain or pace or maybe even gain ground, but the community needs to hit 700mil for us to get the same 7500 7-star shards we’d get in the old system for 275,000 points (now 3500).
Anyway, we have no track record, no past data shared by Kabam, and the massive carrot being dangled here - the Titan crystal - requires an extraordinary amount of time and effort in a setting where you might not even get close to it because of lack of buy-in from the community. The feelings about whether to go for it or give up are just gross. I like knowing what I’m getting.
The realm event for BGs is fundamentally flawed. It exists with an eye toward incentivizing additional participation especially in gladiator circuit.
Unfortunately, it requires an investment from an individual summoner but the return is entirely contingent on the community.
For those of us with kids and/or busy jobs, binge playing isn’t an option. Steady progress is key to long term goals, whether it’s accumulating units or BG points.
This system requires 360 points every two days. Thats 310 points per two days after you deduct the 50 bonus. In the victory track, that’s basically two wins and a loss every day. In GC, it’s a little more than one win and loss per day.
Thanks to changes in the reward structure, however, there’s no guaranteed return for your time or your elder marks. There’s already chatter that we’re behind schedule. Many expect we will fall even farther behind. I’m cautiously optimistic that the extra points for gladiator circuit will help us maintain or pace or maybe even gain ground, but the community needs to hit 700mil for us to get the same 7500 7-star shards we’d get in the old system for 275,000 points (now 3500).
Anyway, we have no track record, no past data shared by Kabam, and the massive carrot being dangled here - the Titan crystal - requires an extraordinary amount of time and effort in a setting where you might not even get close to it because of lack of buy-in from the community. The feelings about whether to go for it or give up are just gross. I like knowing what I’m getting.
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It's not that deep
This is the second Event which I suspect will not be met because the goals are not in reasonable reach. 1.5 Billion Points is not in tandem with the number of people active enough to reach it in BGs. If they want people to actually meet these goals, they need to be tuned better to what is achievable.
I see so many people, on global chat, talking about have 2-3 accounts or even more, stating they don't play on their "main" because they cleared all content, or because they don't like their 7* champions, etc.
It's really not hard.
Game have been pretty bad on my champion rng. And I don't play that much these days. And I won't for this event either.
Not putting extra effort to pull northstar or sable.
I'll settle by doing objectives, that's about it.
I know you have been around a long time, probably play in a similar way I do, min maxing resources.
I understand your frustration about the grind, your personal duties in life and evertthing in between. Lets be honest though, the monent we hit valuable milestones for us, you will be grinding the requirements for it.
We're not in the demo, and that's OK. Good luck to those who are.
The Points system is too stretched for this one, and the Crystal one.